Posts made by Kehaulani

@ROWUK -

Well said
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ROWUK said "Moving air is ONLY necessary to get the lips vibrating . . "

Well, how do you get the lips to continue vibrating? Don't you need air for that, too?

@Newell-Post said in Repair wooden cases?:

@grune Try a luggage and shoe repair shop. They exist in most cities.

Exactly. Been there and done that several times.

@Trumpetsplus said in How To Play Trumpet With Less Tension:

One should never play a piece of music the same way once.

Some of us can't help it.

@Trumpetsplus said in How To Play Trumpet With Less Tension:

My heart sinks when I see students waving around the photos of successful trumpet player's faces and wanting to look like them.

In Philip Farkas' book, The Art of French Horn Playing, he's got a number of photos of top horn players' embouchures. The first thing one is hit with is that no two embouchures are exactly the same.

Sound. If I can't get the sound I want, I don't bother going any further.

Regarding mouthpieces, I match the horn to the mouthpiece not the reverse.

Next I seem to lump some elements in together. I do some checking of how in tune it is, and that includes playing intervals in tune with each other, how flexible it seems, tone from one register to another, and that there is some comfortable resistance, and that the valves work well and freely.

Love 'em. Willem Breuker

I've got to lead off with the negative - get it out of the way. I've hear plenty of Freddie that left me cold. For a while he was frequently on cocaine. I don't know if there's a connection.

But when he's great, he's great. Here's a clip I love:

Look up the definition of vertical smile on the internet.

Good example. I used the antics from Maynard as the gospel on how you should do it. Not very productive in the long run.

I did get Maynard's autograph though, after a concert - on the back of a girlfriend's photo, who had just dumped me. Maynard thought it was pretty funny. That and that I was loaded. Ah, youth.

@Dr-GO said in How To Play Trumpet With Less Tension:

I have always found a good Gin and Tonic lowers trumpet playing tension for me.

Who said anything about tonic?

https://trumpetboards.com/topic/351/the-circle-of-breath

I used to think that to play higher, you had to go through forced, muscular gyrations. I found out later, that a lot of that came from visual hot-dogging by lead players; ego and showing off, rather than anything functional.

I used to sit next to a first-call musician - studios, name bands - you name it. When we rehearsed or recorded, I saw almost no gyrations from him.

Also, having played woodwinds for about 20 years, got me to changing octaves (especially into the high ranges) more like just flipping the octave keys on a sax than doing any extreme muscular movement.

@Dr-Mark said in Is Air Needed To Play The Trumpet:

This video will be an eye-opener for those that don't know that air is NOT needed to make a sound on a brass instrument.

And what do you suggest excites, and keeps in motion, the lips?

@Dr-GO said in Best Off-brand Trumpets:

Did not get to experience much of Vienna... Had some bad wine... ruined my trip through Vienna.

Try some Obstler next time.
(You might not remember it but it will have been time well spent. )

Thanks, Niner.

@Niner said in Lead found in brass horn mouthpieces:

@Dr-GO I spent ten years of my life as a factory rep for a mattress company. You don't know the half of it. When hybrid water beds came out nobody did any testing to see if anybody could drown in one. Thankfully they went out of style before a study could be done.

Isn't the water enclosed in a vinyl bag? How does one drown on that? I'm sincerely curious as to what you mean.

@Dr-Mark said in Best Off-brand Trumpets:

My daughter played it too and said it reminded her of a hotdog because the bent bell makes the horn sorta look like a hotdog but after trying several really top flight horns from Monette to Taylor, she liked the Gansch Horn (made by Schagerl ) the best.

Maybe she should've tried it with mustard and relish.

Good grief. It was a joke.

@Dr-GO What I still want to know, scientifically, is . . . How does Scotty beam someone up?